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Colliery

//ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings. British

    "From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]"

  2. 2
    a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it wordnet
  3. 3
    A facility that supplies coal. US

Etymology

From collier + -y.

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